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It is located at East 47th Street and South Michigan Avenue, just one block east of the former Chicago Housing Authority's Robert Taylor Homes site. In total, the building is made up of 421 apartments, a large landscaped courtyard, and retail space at street level.
It was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 29, 1979. [1] The official community areas were defined in the early 20th century and the current meaning of the Hyde Park neighborhood includes the area between 47th Street and 51st Street ("E. Hyde Park Blvd.") as a part of Hyde Park, [ 2 ] although this area is officially the south half of the ...
Barbara Tropp (1948-October 26, 2001) was an American orientalist, chef, restaurateur, and food writer.During her career, she operated China Moon restaurant in San Francisco and wrote cookbooks that popularized Chinese cuisine in America.
China Grill Management is a restaurant group which owns and operates over 22 [1] restaurants worldwide under 15 concepts worldwide. Headquartered in Florida, the group now has locations in Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Ft. Lauderdale, Chicago, Atlantic City, London and Mexico City. China Grill Management was established in 1987 by Jeffrey ...
Chicago Cafe owner Paul Fong thanks longtime customers Frances and Melton Losoya, who walk past the restaurant’s 100-year-old refrigerator as they leave through the kitchen after a meal last ...
47th Street (Kenwood) is a commuter rail station within the city of Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, Illinois, and the neighborhood of South Chicago.
Kenwood, Chicago was an upper-class residential community in the early 20th century. The connection of mass transit lines in the early 1900s fostered an era of large-scale development. Sherman T. Cooper was among these developers, and eyed a high-class hotel at the northeast corner of 47th Street and Drexel Boulevard.
Harold Pierce, an African-American entrepreneur who moved to Chicago in 1943, founded the restaurant on June 22, 1950, at the corner of 47th Street and Kenwood, near the estate where he worked as a chauffeur. [3]